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Anonymous

*****SPOILERS BELOW IN THESE REPLIES****** You Got 1 out of 6 Right! That being Pink on the Adam Lambert song. A couple of these ended up having released versions (or the demo came out quite some time later) by some of these artists too, so that might be worth reacting to at some point down the track too. 

 Your Guesses of Ed, Sia, and Ne-Yo - they weren’t involved here at all, Neither was Lady Gaga was the other one. Ne-Yo you have reacted to last September on his song ‘Because Of You’ in the same mixtape as a song he wrote for Beyonce - ‘Irreplaceable’. He’s also written for and featured with on some of Rihanna’s songs (‘Russian Roulette’ you have reacted to).

Anonymous

Sia has a particular song written for somebody that isn’t particularly lyrically dense, and Lady Gaga has written for others (including Telephone, which she ended up keeping herself after it was passed on by Britney’s team, and you reacted to ‘Fever’ that she did for Adam Lambert in one of Tris’ mixtapes). 

 Bleeding Love was also a bit early for Ed, coming out a few years before his debut as an artist, however otoh, to be fair isn’t always the case, some artists make their start as songwriters for others for some time before their big break or deciding to make a go of being a front artist - Jessie J giving ‘Party In The USA’ to Miley Cyrus 1-2 ish years before she launched herself into the scene for example.

Anonymous

So onto the Actual Songs; 

Breakaway was co written by Avril Lavigne, Matthew Gerrard (who has written on songs by Nick Carter, Hilary Duff and Jesse McCartney) and Bridget Berenate (wrote a song by Aussie duo Bachelor Girl (you reacted to one of theirs back in the Aussie Artists mixtape). 

 Berenate also co-wrote with Matthew Gerrard on a song on the Princess Diaries 1 Soundtrack, and also together on ‘Lost Without You’ (you’ve reacted) which appeared on both Delta Goodrem and Christian music artist Jaci Velasquez’ 2003 albums at around the same time.

 Aaaaanyways, This was intnded for Avril’s Debut album LET GO (2002), however didn’t make the cut and was shopped around eventually being secured by Kelly Clarkson for the Princess Diaries 2 Soundtrack (2004). She also felt a connection to the lyrics (which were inspired by Avril’s own background) and originally this was meant to be just a soundtrack tide over single between albums. But it ended up becoming the title track and lead single to her second album BREAKAWAY (Nov 2004). Avril's demo later leaked in the 2010's, and an official release came earlier this year as a bonus for the 20th anniversary of Let Go. The 2nd single from Breakaway was ‘Since U Been Gone’ which became one of her biggest hits, had also gone in front of a previous artist, and was co-written by Dr Luke and Max Martin, which leads to….

Anonymous

Whataya Want From Me was the 2nd single from Adam’s debut album FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT (Nov 2009). The video released in Jan 2010. It was co-written by P!nk and also Max Martin and Shellback (whom have worked with Taylor Swift as well as many many others, together in particular on those first 3 singles on RED for example), and it was recorded by P!nk for her 5th album FUNHOUSE (Oct 2008) but didn’t make the cut. 

Her version later appeared on the German and Australian bonus track versions of her Nov 2010 GH album GREATEST HITS… SO FAR!!!. Your’e right you can imagine her style and attitude fitting well on this kinda song. It was a Top 5 chart here in Australia for Lambert.

Anonymous

Iggy Azalea (the waitress in the video) is an Australian rapper (but she dosen’t use typical Aussie Hip Hop accent, her speaking voice is still recognisable as Aussie but she moved to the US when sh was 16 to pursue her rap career maybe thats where her singing accent comes from). You’ve reacted to Rita Once before, with 1D’s Liam Payne on ‘For You’ from Fifty Shades. This was the follow up to a huge single for Iggy earlier in 2014 ‘Fancy’ as well as releasing her album THE NEW CLASSIC, and also appearing on a big single for Ariana Grande called ‘Problem’.

 The story goes with this song is that Katy and Iggy were looking to collaborate, Katy recorded a demo of Black Widow for PRISM, but left it off the album (possibly because it gives similar sonic vibes as ‘Dark Horse’) and gave Iggy the demo with the beat and hook to do her own thing with (writing the rap part). Iggy needed someone with a big voice to sing the chorus, and Katy Wasnt available to re record, so she asked Rita to be on the track.

 Theres Michael Madsen again, and another song of Iggy’s has a music video that is based on a movie homage. She also was a Judge on the 2016 season of Australian X Factor, alongside Adam Lambert, Guy Sebastian, and Mel B (‘Scary Spice’).

Anonymous

Soooo this might be a shocker, This Is What You Came For was co-written by Calvin Harris, and ‘Nils Sjöberg’ which is a Pseudonym of…..Taylor Swift! And if some of those ‘you ooooh oooohs’ sound familiar, she also contributed uncredited backing vocals!

Basically this a product of Calvin and Taylor’s brief time dating each other and released with Rihanna as the vocalist (previously worked with Harris on the 2011 hit ‘We Found Love’) in April 2016. It was a number 1 single here in Australia, and it was also kinda venturing into a bit of the Trop Pop/House sound for Calvin that was also becoming popular during the mid-late 2010’s. Later Calvin would release his FUNK WAV BOUNCES VOL 1 album in 2017, and earlier this year a VOL 2 came out.

Anonymous

Initially the reason Taylor used a pen name for the song is that they didn’t want her and Harris’ relationship to overshadow the song, but it was ultimately revealed to be her a few months after the song dropped. People think it could possibly end up as a vault track on Taylors Version of Reputation, as the era following it. 

I was initially a bit nervous for Taylor at the time writing anything with Harris, as Rita Ora who he had dated previously had the rug pulled out from her in 2014 by Harris at the time of their breakup had a kneejerk reaction and prevented her performing the then recent UK #1 he’d written for her at an awards show - as well as using any of the material intended for her next album. But I guess as Taylor does have a big hand in writing, she would have a lot more creative control in that sense if things didnt end well. Anyway, Taylor also referenced Nils in the graveyard scene of the LWYMMD video in 2017.

Anonymous

And that brings us to Bleeding Love. Yes, Leona Lewis did the song ‘My Hands’ for the English version of Final Fantasy XIII, from her 2nd album ECHO (2009). Leona Lewis won the 3rd season (2006) of X FACTOR UK. In that season there were only 3 Judges, so The Boys and Girls Category was just the ’16-24’s’ which Simon Cowell mentored that year. A Lot of the Winner’s Singles on the UK version were covers, Leona’s being a cover of Kelly Clarkson’s American Idol Winners Song ‘A Moment Like This’ only 4 years previous.

Anyways, Bleeding Love was co-written by Ryan Tedder and Jesse McCartney in early 2007 for Jesse’s 3rd album DEPARTURE (2008). However, the record label passed on it, which Tedder thought they were out of their mind for turning down and really believed in the song, so he tweaked the arrangement a bit to suit Lewis’ vocals, and passed it to Cowell who was looking for songs for Lewis’ debut album SPIRIT.

Anonymous

The song released in late 2007, and became a massive international hit, very high on end of year charts for both 2007 and 2008 also. Leona Lewis also passed on some songs that became big hits for other artists, such as 'We Found Love' (Rihanna & Calvin Harris). Funnily enough it was also in competition on the charts with Ryan Tedder’s own breakthrough hit with OneRepublic, the Timbaland assisted slight remix version of ‘Apologize’ (yes, the ‘Too Late’ song which we should get you to revisit) that was a big hit in late ’07/early ’08.

 After all that Jesse’s version appeared as a bonus track on Departure after all. Tedder went on to write for/with several other big songs, including for the Likes of Beyonce, Adele, Taylor Swift, Kelly Clarkson, Maroon 5, etc. He’s also been a co-host/producer on a songwriting competition style show on NBC called SONGLAND. 

 OneRepublic was on the Nodemap options last mixtape, and you may have heard their latest ‘I Ain’t Worried’ used in TOP GUN: MAVERICK, where it is doing really well on the charts, Top 5/10 in several countries.

Nikki

This was such a great idea. I loved this whole video. Also, the first two songs in this mix are some of my favorite pop tracks, so it was great to see them here. I couldn’t play along because I already knew a couple of the answers, but it made the whole video fun to analyze, too. This was fantastic. 😊 (Also, your take on Ed Sheeran was hilarious to hear and I don’t disagree. Lol.)